Jury Pool Profile
Dimmit County, Texas
- County seat
- Carrizo Springs
- Judicial district
- 293rd District Court
- Population (July 2025 estimate)
- 8,024
- Census PEP. The five-year ACS survey average is 8,380.
At a glance
Dimmit County is an 8,024-person venue. The county population is 14% White (Census race-alone categories). 87% identify as Hispanic or Latino of any race. Those figures overlap rather than adding up; counted separately, non-Hispanic White residents are 8.2%, which is the basis the chart below uses. Median household income is $49,127, $30,596 below the TX state median of $79,723; 9.8% of residents 25 and over hold a bachelor's degree or higher. 58.9% of residents 5 and older speak a language other than English at home, most commonly Spanish, then other and unspecified languages (2.4%), a group the Census does not break out. The largest employment sector is Natural resources & mining, at 28.9% of covered employment, average pay $93,021/year. Trailing-12-month unemployment is 7.36%, above the 4.32% state average. The county carried the Democratic presidential candidate in 2016, 2020, and 2024, taking 52% to 67% of the vote across the three.
- Population
- 8,380
- Median household income
- $38,808
- Unemployment
- 7.4%
Who sits on a jury?
<50% in any single race-alone group. White here: 14%; Black: 1%.
Dimmit County has a population of 8,380, with a median age of 35.7. By Census race-alone categories, White residents make up 14.4%; Black residents 1.1%. Independently, 87.1% of residents identify as Hispanic or Latino of any race.
The median household earns $49,127; 9.8% of residents 25 and over hold a bachelor's degree or higher; 28.5% live below the federal poverty line.
Economic context
Largest sector in BLS QCEW, even counting every withheld job toward the other sectors: Natural resources & mining, about 29% of covered jobs. Oil and gas (private NAICS 211, 213111, 213112) is about 26.4% of all jobs, at or above the 5% bar.
Natural resources & mining is the largest employment sector at 28.9% of covered employment, followed by Education & health services at 22.6%. Trailing-12-month unemployment is 7.36%, above the Texas state average.
Political composition
Democratic candidate carried this county in 2016, 2020, and 2024 (avg winning share: 60%). 'Strongly' threshold: ≥60% avg.
Dimmit County was carried by the Democratic candidate in the 2016, 2020, and 2024 cycles, with 51.5% in 2024, 61.8% in 2020, 67.4% in 2016.
Languages, households, faith & health
Family households are 71% of all households (thresholds: ≥70% = 'family-dominant'; 50–70% = 'family-majority'; <50% = 'singles/nonfamily-majority'). 58.9% of residents 5 and older speak a language other than English at home (threshold for 'linguistically diverse' is ≥10%).
58.9% of residents 5 years and older speak a language other than English at home. The most common are Spanish, Tagalog, French, Haitian, or Cajun. Veterans account for 4.1% of the adult civilian population (254 individuals).